New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-06-06
Tie CHLLDREN,S YACA7ION

TIE tribune Fresh Air Fund enters upon
its eleventh season with unwonted signs OF
COR and activity. No appeal has been made
for public support this year. Yet for months
money has been coming in without solicitation.
and as the financial statement published else
vhero In this issue shows over $4,000 Is
already available for this most practical as
well as beautiful of charities. The Fund NAV
be described as perennial plant reachihg
maturity during the heated term, but growing
silently even during tho winter months. I's
oenerous natrons keep the children in mind
.. oil soosons of the year and take 1T for
granted. as they have right to DO, tha' INC
work will go on under the same management
orJ without change The time has now come
for The TRIBUNE to make it's customary appear
n tbc same generous public which has sus'
,oned its efforts to provide summer vacations
for moor children in this city and Brooklyn.
Iarce rs the balance in the treasury now Il
for the early DAYS of June. five times hvo
Thousand dollars can be used before October,
IL the money be contributed in good time.
Last wear 1896 children were sent into the
country for fortnight's vacation ut an outlay
Of S24.O92 90. or an average cost OF D ~
for an average distance from the city OF 200
miles. This splendid record can be c1ualled'
possibly surpassed, this year, if the friends OF
the Fund will boStir themselves and send In
their contributions betimes.
THE TRrBuNE's appeal goes out to the
country as VOL as TO the town. The patrons
OF the Fund upon whose generosity and un-
sclGsbness the success Of this noble charity
most largely depends the ho>ptable fam
lies opening their homes TO the tenement
visitors. The results Of the work are large
because the children are entertained without
a dollar of expense after the journey is made.
Large as the contributions arc every year, the
burden really falls upon those who take tho
little ones into their country homes ana
minister to their comfort and happiness. This
wear arrangements have already been made
with hundreds Of families in the interior OF
this State and elsewhere Town and village
committees have boon appointed; the local
press has rendered valuable aid; and the con
gregations Of many churches have entered en-
Enthusiastically upon the work. The Manager
has every reason to be satisfied with the
present prospects Of the Fund in the quarter
where the hardest work is required and the
chief difficulties are encountered. STU great
deal remains 70 bc done; thousands OF poor
children will soon bc yearning for green fields
and pastures new; and unless homes can be
found for them they will have to stay AT
home even if the treasury be full.
The methods Of the Fresh-Air Fund are so
familiar TO the public THAI only brct d.
scription is required for the benefit OF new
readers Theie are no Office expenses, the
only salary that is paid, the managers, being
provided for every year by few private sub
scribers. The money contributed is used for
travelling expenses only, the guarantee beng
that for every So a poor child shall be sent
into the country far enough to secure com
plete change of air, kept there for two weeks
and brought back TO it's tenement home. Inc
children travelled last year. in going and re
turning. 4.334,72O miles, making in round
numbers. 200 circuits of the world This was
chcap TRANSPORTATION, the average cost per
child being less than S., railroad corporations
making great reductions for the benefit OF the
Fund. Some apprehension has been felt this
season lest tic operation Of the interstate Law
NAV interfere with these reductions and I'm
nc,il the success Of the Fund. The most OK
peronced railway managers have assured tue
Manager. however, that the usual fayors can
lac extended Otherwise the guarantee that a
child will be sent away for every So sub
scribed to the Fund cannot 10 maintained.